| Running in Flip-flops Contributor(s): Fay, Abigail (Author) |
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ISBN: 1935925156 ISBN-13: 9781935925156 Publisher: Peace Corps Writers OUR PRICE: $10.93 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6" W x 9" (0.97 lbs) 300 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African - Cultural Region - West Africa |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Fresh out of college, Shannon Wheaton signs up for two years in the Peace Corps and gets exactly what she expects: a mud hut, a boisterous host family, no running water or electricity, and endless days of shelling peanuts. What she didn't expect was to clash so intensely with Wolof culture. In her rural village in Senegal, West Africa, Shannon is challenged in ways she never could have imagined. She finds herself riding an emotional roller coaster. Moments of wonder and of frustration, tiny successes and multiple failures, American friends and village neighbors, all shape Shannon's new world -- and her with it. Her story is an earnest chronicle of Peace Corps service, with the enduring question familiar to all volunteers: What does it mean to make a difference? Read the Peace Corps Writers review: http: //peacecorpsworldwide.org/pc-writers/2011/12/04/review-running-in-flip-flops/ |
